Introduction to UPPMAX — first day lessons

Here you will find some of the documentation for the UPPMAX resources in an easy to find place.

We will present and refer a lot to our new documentation at http://docs.uppmax.uu.se/

Intro

• Welcome on-line!
  • Lesson material
  • New documentation page
  • Questions
  • Exercises
  • Type along
  • The topics
  • Today
  • Icebreaker in HackMD

Overview

• Overview
  • NAISS
  • UPPMAX missions
  • UPPMAX systems
  • High Performance Computing — HPC
  • Overview of the UPPMAX systems

Get started

• Login
  • General understanding
  • The login
  • Exercises
• Linux and basic toolkit
  • Basic toolkit
  • We will cover these commands

More about UPPMAX

• Overview
  • Organisational orienteering
  • UPPMAX missions
  • UPPMAX support staff
  • The Application experts not dealing with allocation and accounts
• High Performance Computing — HPC
  • HPC, HTC and MTC
  • What is a cluster?
  • Storage basics
  • The UPPMAX hardware
• NAISS and projects

Using UPPMAX

• Software and tools
  • Modules
  • Installed software
  • Installed databases
  • Run own scripts or programs
• Using the compute nodes
  • The compute nodes
  • Slurm, sbatch, the job queue
  • Interactive jobs
  • Job scripts (batch)
  • Other Slurm tools
  • Exercises
  • Links
• Working on UPPMAX
  • $HOME dir and project dir
  • What kind of work will you perform?
  • Common problems

NAISS SENS

• NAISS SENS and Bianca
  • Sensitive personal data
  • Apply for project
  • Bianca
  • Bianca’s design
  • Introduction course

Courses and workshops

• Courses and workshops
  • Introductory Linux courses
  • Other UPPMAX courses
  • Courses at other NAISS/SNIC Centers
  • CodeRefinery
  • ENCCS (EuroCC National Competence Centre Sweden
  • Links to extra material

Summary

• Summary
  • Today’s content
  • The new documentation
  • Q/A